The suicide of a 13-year-old boy in southern Japan after classmates systematically bullied him - even making him "practice" suicide - while teachers ignored the abuse or laughed has prompted soul-searching among educators across the country. One of the boy's last acts was to text his tormentors and leave voice mails for them to say, "I'm going to die."

(Credit: Michael Reynolds/EPA) It's been dubbed "Ground Force One" and now has the official insignia to match its partner in the air. The jet-black armored motor coach ferrying President Obama from Air Force One in Toledo, across northern Ohio and into Pennsylvania, got an upgrade for its first trip of the 2012 campaign: a large colorful presidential seal emblazoned on its side.

Credit: Getty Images Unlike Mitt Romney's recent bus tour, President Obama's upcoming roadtrip might feel more like a homestand. On Tuesday his campaign announced a two-day bus tour through Pennsylvania and Ohio, which will take him across some friendly turf.

As President Obama hits the road for his first campaign bus tour of the 2012 election season, here are five things to watch that could make this a noteworthy two-day, two-state trip: 1. MESSAGE: OBAMA, A BETTING MAN Claiming anyone running for president, much less Mitt Romney, is "betting against America" might seem far-fetched.

"CRASH! Oh nooo," cooed my toddler happily. It took my son, who was one and a half at the time, less than five seconds to break my mother's clock. He grabbed and threw it down with as much force as his chubby arms could muster.

Americans divide on the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the federal health care law and on Barack Obama's plans for the health care system alike, while favorable views of Mitt Romney's approach to health care fall shorter, with more undecided.

(ABC News) TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie opened up about his weight problem in an interview with ABC News and stressed he is "trying" to lose weight, a battle he's waged for 30 years, but said he's never considered gastric bypass surgery because it's "too risky."

ABC News' Michael Falcone reports: New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte plans to march with Mitt Romney in Wednesday's Fourth Of July parade in Wolfeboro, N.H., GOP sources tell ABC News. Ayotte will be the first vice presidential short-lister to appear publicly with the presumptive Republican nominee during his week-long vacation at his Lake Winnipesaukee retreat.

How will you celebrate the Fourth of July this year? If you're heading to Walt Disney World Resort, there will be plenty of options for family fun, including fireworks spectaculars at Magic Kingdom Park and Epcot, and a rockin' new celebration at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

Armando Montano, an aspiring journalist who was working this summer as a news intern for The Associated Press in the Mexican capital, was found dead early Saturday. He was 22 years old. Montano's body was found in the elevator shaft of an apartment building near where he was living in the capital's Condesa neighborhood.

Alec Baldwin cursed out another photographer this morning, but this time, he may have had good reason. The "30 Rock" actor unleashed on a photographer who was blocking the entrance to his apartment building, yelling, "I want you to shut the f**k up and get out of here. Leave my neighbor alone."

It was not a story she liked to tell. At 19, Kori Cioca had joined the Coast Guard, and after completing basic training, she said, "I had never felt so proud of myself. I was ready for anything they could throw at me. "But I didn't think rape was going to be one of them."

A female giant panda at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo has showed signs of pregnancy, a zoo official said Tuesday, spurring hopes that the zoo might see its first cub since 1988. If the male panda Ri Ri and female panda Shin Shin produce a baby, it will be the first time the oldest zoo in Japan, established in 1882, has succeeded in natural breeding of pandas.

BOSTON - Continuing to capitalize on a Washington Post report on Mitt Romney's ties to outsourcing, the Obama campaign is launching state-specific TV ads in Ohio, Iowa and Virginia that accuse the presumptive Republican nominee of a history of shipping U.S. jobs overseas.

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